4/18/2022 – In his Endgame Magic Show #190 Karsten Müller looks at endgame highlights from the Bundesliga. On 9 and 10 of April the 16 teams in Germany's top league played rounds 3 and 4 of the current season, which led to a number of fascinating endgames which Karsten wants to share with his viewers. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
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Karsten MüllerKarsten Müller is considered to be one of the greatest endgame experts in the world. His books on the endgame - among them "Fundamentals of Chess Endings", co-authored with Frank Lamprecht, that helped to improve Magnus Carlsen's endgame knowledge - and his endgame columns for the ChessCafe website and the ChessBase Magazine helped to establish and to confirm this reputation. Karsten's Fritztrainer DVDs on the endgame are bestsellers. The mathematician with a PhD lives in Hamburg, and for more than 25 years he has been scoring points for the Hamburger Schachklub (HSK) in the Bundesliga.
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